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Climate Change and Emerging Contaminants: Implications for Environmental and Public Health

Sepideh Nasrollahpour1, Natalia Klanovicz1,2, Pratishtha Khurana1, Satinder Kaur Brar1* 1Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada.2Department of Chemical Engineering, Escola Politecnica, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Climate Change and Its Implications Climate change, caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, is raising global temperatures, altering precipitation patterns, and increasing […]

Turning Waste into Wealth: The Art and Science of Resourceful Recycling

by Reema, PhD student and Dr. Satinder Kaur Brar, Lassonde School of Engineering In a world of increasing “wants”, lies a parallel increase in “wastes”. We are observing a record surge in the production of goods for human consumption, and likewise, its wasteful consequences. From wasted agricultural produce, post-consumption or unused food waste, municipal and […]

Fighting Climate Change: From the Global to the Individual and Back Again (2024)

by Violette Dagorne The climate change crisis we face is global. It is a “wicked” problem (Underdal, 2017) that requires a global response. As an actor in this world, I want to believe that there are solutions. I want to believe in the possibility of a world outside a consumerist view that only values profit […]

Announcing York U’s new associate director research security

Rebecca Irwin is York University’s first associate director research security, effective October 10.  Prior to joining York, Irwin worked for the Government of Canada, both in Ottawa and Toronto, on national security priorities. In her 16 years with the federal government, she managed teams and projects in the national security space and has experience on […]

Bees, Beewashing and Climate Change: An Interview with Sheila Colla

This interview was conducted by Research Apprenticeship Programme (RAP) student Alyssa Ramos, Glendon Campus, with Professor Sheila Colla, Faculty of the Environment and Urban Change (https://www.savethebumblebees.ca). How did you end up in this field, studying bees and their relationship to the environment and climate change?  During my undergraduate degree, the University of Toronto had the […]

The Planetary Health Advocacy Framework and the Importance of Dialogue

Written by Liliana Antonshyn and Alyssa Ramos, Research Apprenticeship Programme students at Glendon College, York University On March 29th, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research held a collective discussion, led by Carol Devine and Yasmin Al-Sahili. Devine is a Community Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute working on a framework for Planetary Health Advocacy. Al-Sahili […]

The Science, Social Science and Art of Climate Change

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR). The CFR held this panel on March 30. "Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Human-caused climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. This has led to widespread […]

Fire and Floods in Our Own Backyard: Examining Climate Change Displacement and Internal Migration in Canada

Written by Tesni Ellis, PhD Student in Education During Climate Change Research Month, at the March 16 lecture hosted by the York University’s Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response and Governance Institute (Y-EMERGE), listeners were invited to draw our attention inwards to proactively consider the “fire and floods” in our own backyard. Dr. Yvonne Su began her […]

Caring about Climate: The Catalyst to Political Change?

Written by Evangeline Kroon Organized by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies on March 7, 2023. Is caring about climate change enough to make political change? My research takes up this question by looking at Guelph, Ontario where, in 2018, the riding elected Green Party candidate Mike Schreiner. The Green Party’s success was significant, since […]

From Ambition to Action: Labour, Equity, and Climate Justice

Written by Nathi Zamisa, MA student in Social and Political Thought For the last decade, the Executive Director of the Cornell Industrial and Labour Relations School’s Climate Jobs Institute, Dr. Lara Skinner, has been working to launch union-led climate jobs coalitions. Together with labour unions, elected leaders, environmental groups, and industry experts, she has worked […]

Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate Justice and Water Protectors

Written by Elaine Coburn in conversation with Angele Alook Indigenous peoples have inherent rights to the lands on which they have lived since time immemorial. That is the message from Professor Angele Alook, member of the Bigstone Cree Nation and faculty in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. These rights, Alook emphasizes, bring […]

Smudging in Sharm El-Sheikh: Experiences of Indigenous Peoples at COP 27

Written by Nathalie Elizabeth LaCoste Ling In November 2022, the twenty seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The aim of this annual event was to bring countries together to take action towards climate goals established […]

Climate Change and Joyful Possibility

Written by Elaine Coburn, Associate Professor of International Studies, Glendon In the struggle for a livable world, for each of us and for all of us, there are many from whom we draw strength. Some are close to us and some we know only through their words. Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, a German Jewish survivor of […]

Climate Change and Planetary Health

Organized by The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, March 1, 2023 Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research The United Nations’ conference on climate change, the COP 27, held in Egypt in November 2022, was a massive failure. The Climate Finance Delivery Plan, established in 2009, for instance, promised 100 […]

Climate Change in the Caribbean: The Role of Capital in the Climate Crisis and the Movement for Climate Justice

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research Organized by the CERLAC student caucus and hosted by York University doctoral students Natasha Sofia Martinez and Alex Moldovan.  Malene Alleyne is a Jamaican human rights lawyer and founder of Freedom Imaginaries, an organization that uses human rights law to tackle legacies of slavery […]

World Water Day: A Solutions-Driven Workshop on Climate Impacts on Freshwater

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research. World Water Day: A Solutions-Driven Workshop on Climate Impacts on Freshwater was co-hosted by CIFAL York and the Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University. The event is part of CIFAL York’s In-Focus Knowledge Exchange […]

Agents for Change: Facing the Anthropocene and The Shore Line Project

Nina Czegledy, co-creator of the Leonardo Network, is an artist and adjunct professor at the Ontario College for Art and Design. Jane Tingley is co-creator of the SLOLab, York University. Together Czegledy and Tingley co-curated the Agents for Change: Facing the Anthropocene exhibition. Liz Miller is an artist at Concordia University. The online panel discussing […]

Children in a changing climate

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research Dr. Kam Sripada is a neuroscientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and currently manages the Centre for Digital Life Norway, a national biotechnology innovation centre. Dr. Sripada has studied how social and environmental factors influence child brain development and can […]

Faith-Based Environmental Action

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research, York University Biography Tanhum Yoreh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on religion and environment, faith-based environmentalism, faith-based environmental ethics, and religious legal approaches to environmental protection. He is particularly interested in the […]

Gender Equality in Low-Carbon Economies

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research, York University Bipasha Baruah (York University PhD 2005) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Global Women’s Issues. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Professor Baruah specializes in interdisciplinary research […]